504 Mr. Hills on the Antilope Chickara. 



but there is this difference between them, — a transverse section 

 of the smallest pair in the old specimen (the larger ones are 

 unfortunately wanting) would exhibit a figure of a lozenge-like 

 character, while those of the new one are nearly circulai'. The 

 tips of the old horns are rather acute, of the new ones obtuse. 

 The state of the epiphyses shows the new specimen to have been 

 a young animal (I should presume in his second year), and the 

 old skull appears to have belonged to an adult ; but this dif- 

 ference in point of age does not account, as it might in deer, 

 for such a variance of character in the horns. 



To my former remarks on the nose or muzzle I beg to add, 

 that I can recollect only one animal which in this feature resem- 

 bled our Antilope,— it was a very small Deer, in the menagerie 

 of the late Duchess of York : it was said to be Brazilian, and 

 its horns resembled those of the Pricket Cerviis dama. In the 

 Nyl Ghau this part manifestly belongs to the same class with the 

 nose of tlie Cow and Stag. In all other Antilopes it will, I 

 believe, be found to accord in character with that of the Goat 

 and Sheep. 



The resemblance between the tail of this Antilope when the 

 drawing was taken, and the "single" of the Stag, dissection 

 has since accounted for. The number and character of the 

 caudal vertebrœ show that part to have possessed the same 

 powers of motion as the tail of a Fallow Deer; but he must at 

 that time have been in a state of sickness and pain, of which the 

 fUncIiing, tucked-in position of this member is as expressive as it 

 is of fear. 



After carefully considering the article in the 14th volume of 

 the Linnean Transactions on the Antilope Chickara, and that in 

 the 44th number of the " Histoire Naturelle des Mammifères," 

 I am of opinion that the Chickara described by General Hard- 

 wicke and M. Duvaucel, and the animal whose portrait I have 



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